Belt-holder for trousers.



M. ROSENBERG. BELT HOLDER FOR TROUSERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.5, 1912.

1,050,849. Patented Jan. 21; 1913.

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MICHAEL ROSENBERG, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

BELT-HOLDER FOR TROUSERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 21, 1913.

Application filed September 5, 1912. Serial No. 718,604.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, MICHAEL ROSENBERG, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Chelsea, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Belt-Holders for Trousers, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a novel and efficient device for holding in proper position the waist-belt used by men for keeping the trousers in place, and my invention is so constructed that a convenient and strong attaching device is provided for the usual hook on the fly-lap of the garment.

One great objection to the use of waistbelt-s, particularly by large and stout men, is that the belt tends to slip upward at the front, so that the waist-band of the trousers will show more or less below the leather or other belt.

By my present invention the buckle of the belt is connected in a secure yet readily detachable manner with the waist-band portion of the trousers, completely obviating the foregoing objection and maintaining the belt at all times in proper position.

It is well known that the sheet-metal hook commonly used for holding the overlapping fly-flap in closed position is apt to work loose, for it is a diflicult matter to attach it firmly and securely to the trousers.

In my present invention I make one member of the detachable or separable fastener for the belt serve also to secure the hook in position on the garment, so that it is impossible to loosen it while the cloth remains intact.

The novel features of my invention will be fully described in the subjoined specification and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the waist portion of a pair of trousers, with a waist belt, illustrating one embodiment of my invention the fly-fiaps being opened and the belt loosened to show clearly the construction; Fig. 2 is an enlarged inner side view of the belt buckle, showing the tongue thereof provided with one member of the separable fastener; Fig. 3 is a front view of the fly hook and the other member of the fastener, the fabric of the garment being indicated by dotted lines; Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional detail taken on the line 44, Fig. 1, through the shank of the hook and the cooperating member of the fastener; Flg. 5 is a sectional detail on the line 55, Fig. 2.

Referring to Fig. 1, the-upper or waistband portion of a pair of trousers is indicated at 1, and the usual fly-flaps 2, 3 are shown as open, the-flap 2 having attached to it a usual loop 4 for cooperation with the sheet metal hook 5, attached to the other flap 3. Herein I make the hook shank 6 fiat and provide it with an aperture 7 through which is extended the tubular shank 8, Fig. 4, of a ball member 9 of the well known ball and socket type of separable fastener, the shank having the usual annularly enlarged base 10, and it is held in place by the usual attaching washer 11.

In practice I insert the hook shank 6 between the inner and outer plies or thicknesses of fabric constituting the flap 3, and the shank is fixedly attached thereto by the device just described and clearly shown in Fig. 4, the ball member 9 and the fastener being on the outside of the flap 3 and at the front of the garment, at the waistband portion thereof. If desired stitches may be taken through the edge of the flap 3 and holes 12 provided for the purpose in the hook, to prevent any possibility of the displacement thereof, but it is to be understood that the main attaching device for the hook is the fastener member and washer 11 above described, whereby the hook is so securely attached that it cannot be removed without taking a part of the garment with it.

The belt 13, of usual construction, is sustained by usual belt-loops 14 on the waistband of the trousers, and said belt has a buckle 15 provided with a tongue 16, all of well known construction so far as described. In accordance with my present invention I mount the second member of the fastener on said tongue, at the inner side thereof, and herein I have shown the socket member 17 of the fastener as attached to the tongue by a rivet 18. The rivet holds the member 17 rigidly in place on the tongue, at such a disis caught into the loop 4, retaining the flyfiaps overlapped and closed, and the belt is buckled up to the desired extent, the snapping of the ball member 9 into the socket member 17 of the fastener connecting the buckle and the trousers at the waistband part thereof. The belt is thus connected "with the trousers so that it cannot slip up or down relatively to the trousers, but will always stay in proper relationship thereto, just below the upper edge of the waistband.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure b Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a pair of trousers having a hook connection for the flyflaps at the waistband, and a detachable waist-belt having a buckle, of a hook-attach.' ing device having at its outer end one member of a separable two-part fastener, and a cooperating member permanently attached to the buckle at the inner side thereof, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination With a pair of trousers having a hook on one flap, said hook having an apertured shank, and a waist-belt provided with a buckle having a tongue, of a ball and socket fastener to connect detachably said buckle tongue and the trousers, said fastener comprising a socket member on the tongue at its inner side, and a cooperating ball member having a shank extended through the apertured shank of the hook, to attach the latter fixedly to the garment.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MICHAEL ROSENBERG.

W'itnesses J OHN C. EDWARDS, FREDERICK S. GREENLEAF.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

